Of late, I have noticed complaints against the Apple accessibility team as if to suggest that we are being ignored. It seems to be the belief of some that the Apple accessibility team fixes accessibility bugs and problems with Voice Over. I do not believe that this is the case. It is my belief that the Apple accessibility team has, in fact, a very limited role at Apple. Frankly, with the passing of the late great Steve Jobs, that role has perhaps demenished greatly. I believe that the Apple accessibility team never has had actual decision making capacity with respect to actual implementation of fixes for Voice Over. They didn’t even have this power under Steve Jobs. Unless I am very much mistaken, all the accessibility team has any power to do is to forward our findings over to the development teams but nothing more. They cannot even tell us whether or not our reports will be acted upon. Now, this last is most likely a part of Apple’s non disclosure policy: however, I suspect that even if this was not so, Apple’s accessibility team would not be informed in any case. In short, it seems that the only function that this accessibility team has and will ever have at Apple is not much more than a kind of clearing house of feedback from us blind users. I cannot help wonder how many Apple app developmental teams look at submissions from the accessibility team and say to themselves, “Oh, no, not again.”. I suspect that this explains why it is that our reports seem to go unheeded.
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